Seeking After Beauty of Nature —The Artistic Characteristics of Sheng Congwens Novels

The eternal worship of the idealized humanities,and the pursuit of beauty of“sounds of nature” like harmony and roundedness,and his individual makings,free and unrestrained,like flowing rivers of the Xiang and the Yuan,have all defined the artistic characteristics of Sheng Congwens novels.His free and easy prosified form of writing,his diversified ways of narration and the“appropriate ness”in his choosing the style of writing,are giving out with a kind of“comfortable breath”that has converged in the tradition of both the Chinese and Western literatures and that any modern Chinese writers lack.